Only russian propaganda sources make such claims about a March-April 2022 peace deal. The Ukrainian side says that the discovery of mass russian war crimes against civilians in occupied territories made all negotiations null and void. According to a May ...
Some background. Firstly, in Ukraine, even under martial law, freedom of speech is respected, and there is no and cannot be any criminal liability for criticizing the president. Therefore, the accusation that Lira or someone else was “jailed for ...
"provoking Russia"... russia "provokes" itself to invade various neighbours often, doesn't need any help. They invent whatever reasons suit them at the time.
US aid to Ukraine was 0.33% of GDP in 2023, most of which was spent in the USA employing Americans. 11 other countries contributed more as percentage of GDP. US aid to Ukraine has little to no influence on the USA's ability to pay for public services etc -...
You need to brush up your Late Latin obviously. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viscidus (admission - I had never heard it in my life, had to look behind the world of warcraft results to find it....what a weird word to use) Amusing it was used by a ...
I had a glance at kiwiblog yesterday to see what that side was saying about this event. A great deal of really nasty misogyny and naked racism was on open display. I have no opinion on the shoplifting allegation at this point. But if what I saw is any ...
It should be reported - when Maggie Barry had her recent Air NZ agitation, she boarded the plane in the electorate of Labour MP Lemauga Lydia Sosene and - shockingly - landed in the electorate of National MP Joseph Mooney!! Relevant points.
Absolutely - what a bizarre and I suspect malicious detail to add. I don't recall ever seeing the electorate in which an offence was committed by an MP mentioned before. Irrelevant unless Swarbrick was part of the same shopping trip etc.
True, it was the right that took advantage. But no need to make it easier for them (and yes, they would have come up with some vapid attack slogan regardless, I suppose)
Using the advertising approach of calling it "3 waters" was a mistake I think. Should have just called it "water infrastructure" or "drinking water, storm water and sewage services" The disingenuous would have found "STOP water infrastructure!" or "STOP ...
The BBC is quite often guilty of bias, I agree. In my case, I see evil and wrong doing on both sides of the Israel / Palestine conflict. Those who cheerlead only for Palestine often hold up Al Jazeera as a reliable source - when in fact it is owned by ...
The last three on that list are who I think of when the term 'cookers' is used. So maybe it is a perfectly good term, just is being misused to include #1 on the list. Bit like the word 'nazi', has specific and real meaning, but often misused by applying to...
Quite a few of them don't consider "anti-science" to be a pejorative.
Russia is not a basket case? Here are 100 reasons why https://nitter.privacydev.net/osint_69/status/1619416277633896448#m
I greatly admired much of his work on Cambodia, East Timor etc. Disappointed by his later cheerleading for fascist russia and the mass killer putin. I liked his summary of the agendas of the powerful: "...power, he argues, has its own agenda. Unchallenged,...
In a former working life I used to have to know quite a bit about this. The standards are based on a likelihood of making you sick, and as such have tangible meaning. There is a direct correlation between what is measured and the chance of a person ...
We are moving towards one of the great weaknesses of the British class system - most of the skills and abilities of most of the population are rendered useless and irrelevant because only the upper class (rich) are allowed to participate. Damages and ...
I think Russia moved, troops, tanks and armoured vehicles into Donbas on August 24 2014. Why do you believe this? Putin says that is an utter lie.
True, russia began its current invasion of Ukraine in 2014, when it sent tens of thousands of regular troops, plus Wagner PMC (100% funded by russia, Putin now admits), modern russian battle tanks and other weapons into Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. In ...
Funny. Russia redefines "defense" as ordering your armies over borders to invade peaceful neighbours. Propaganda 101. First, deny all standard norms and definitions.
To me this is one of the most egregious acts by this new government, because it protects extreme economic injustice for the long term. Should get a lot more coverage.
...hence russia "defends itself" by launching wars inside other people's countries.
From the off this was a war which should never happened..... And the greed of the arms industry being what it is. Russia launched the war and the Russian arms industry is mostly state-owned, so are you saying greed by the Russian state contributed to the ...
Sorry! I certainly don't mean to say you should watch them quickly, or at all. I'm impressed you watched the first one, because they are quite long and have a lot of detail (and it is 24 December!) If/when you do watch some, I'd be very interested to hear ...
6 minutes to reply...so you didn't look at the video. I suppose watching RT is easier (and to be fair, much better produced and edited). A federation in the sense that Aboriginal Australians were "federated" by the British "Federation" in the 1800s...
NAct probably think this is all a good reason to scrap Taumata Arowai.......and it has one of those awful foreign names to boot!
Putin is absolutely wanting "a Russia which included Ukraine"...problem is, the Ukrainians don't want it. The "70 odd years of communism" was really 70 odd years in the Russian empire, which included mass deportations, russification and events such as the ...
Photoshop is also occurring.
Russia is an empire, but one that has contiguous land borders. The current Russian Empire is a conglomeration of multiple cultures and societies, now colonised and with their languages and cultures suppressed. This youtube channel has 6 videos (in English)...
...and the 'Cheap Shot' biography book photo. Widespread on russian disinfo accounts on twitter. Can find no info anywhere supporting its authenticity (e.g. where, when). Does Mike have any idea of its actual origin, or just 'putting it out there'? I had a...
Yeah, you could consider reading some Ukrainian sources, when commenting on Ukraine. Arestovych is widely distrusted by Ukrainians, many of whom now consider him a russian agent. In unrelated news, russian propaganda channels seem to be promoting ...
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